"Steve"  wrote in message news:...

> Neil
> By 'ill-conceived I meant that I was concerned about the construction work 
> involved in tunnelling the cutting and building a store over a very busy 
> mainline railway.
> In fact I e-mailed Bob Crow of the NUR some two tears ago expressing my 
> concern 'that this was an accident waiting to happen'. Needless to say I 
> had no response back despite resending the e-mail a week or two later.
> Let's not kid ourselves here. If not for an extraordinary stroke of luck, 
> in that the tunnel collapsed whilst empty,  we would now be looking at 
> perhaps one of the biggest rail disasters ever to befall the rail network 
> in this country.
> The thought of a packed Birmingham through express being hit at the point 
> of collapse with untold loss of life is too dreadful to contemplate.
> Let's just hope that good sense prevails and the structure is removed.
> Steve
>
> "Neil Williams"  wrote in message 
> news:42ebe75e.2381814@news.tesco.net...
>> On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:20:18 +0100, "Steve"
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>Lets just hope that this is the beginning of the end to this 
>>>ill-conceived
>>>undertaking.
>>
>> I fail to see why it is ill-conceived, other than because the local
>> NIMBYs do not want a Tesco store.  Had said store been constructed,
>> however, I expect a significant number of them would still have
>> shopped there, just as the Ormskirk NIMBYs who opposed the local
>> Safeway (now Morrisons) store did.
>>
>> I personally do not share the opposition to Tesco that some hold, as
>> they appear to have grown in the way they have by way of providing
>> exactly what their customers, including myself as one, want.
>> Sainsbury's, OTOH, have tended not to do this by way of their poor
>> stock control, higher prices and poorer range, so haven't done as
>> well.
>>
>> That the tunnel collapsed does not make it ill-conceived, either; from
>> what is being said the design was sound, just not the construction.
>> Cut-and-cover tunnels[1], after all, are by no means a new thing.
>>
>> [1] OK, this particular one was less of the "cut" and more of the
>> "cover", but that's not particularly important, IMO.
>>
>> Neil
>>
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